Facts about Alexander Kluge

Summary

Biography

Alexander Kluge, was a German lawyer, film director, television producer, author and screenwriter.

Kluge has primarily been known as one of the directors in the new German cinema, the West German film that broke through in the 1960s. He studied law, history and music at Marburg University and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, he became Doctor of Laws 1956th

He was a member of the Gruppe 47th.

Zodiac etc.

He is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Alexander.

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Famous quotes by Alexander Kluge (9)

"The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors"

"When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible"

"As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present"

"Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description"